In Sajmište concentration camp, Belgrade

In  Sajmište concentration camp  Sajmište concentration camp in Belgrade, Serbia  was located at the former Belgrade fairground site near the town of Zemun, in the former Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a World War II fascist puppet state of Germany.  According to the information panel on site "within the First Belgrade complex, formed in 1937, Gestapo in December of 1941 founded the concentration camp in order to exeucte Jews and Gypsies. After the execution of Jews, it became a place of execution of captured partisan and chetnik fighters as well as the civilians in the war area between May 1942 and July 1944. What once was the biggest German concentration camp in occupied Serbia and southeast Europe today is one the most important memorial places in Serbia." The information panel avoid to inform how due to the occupying powers having split up the former kingdom of  Yugoslavia, Sajmište site on the western banks of the Sava had fallen into Croatian territory. And how the Ustasha, the Croatian fascists allied with Nazi Germany, granted the Germans the use of the site as a concentration camp. On the other hand Sajmište concentration camp, "one the most important memorial places in Serbia", a place where between 20.000 and 23.000 inmates -10.000 Jews among them- were killed seems to be today an ignored and forgotten camp. An estimated 2.500 people live on the grounds of the former camp. A monument commemorating the victims of the camp created by the artist Miodrag Popovic, is placed on the banks of the river Sava. These pictures were taken in August 2017 and show the central tower of the Sajmište fairgrounds.